habitat

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (uncountable) Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
  2. (countable) A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
  3. (countable) A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A place in which a person lives.

Konzepte

Synonyme

place of origin

place of living

place of habitation

breeding place

best place

living environment

field of activities

area of activity

range of behavior

natural environment

passenger compartment

natural abode

habitat of a species

Übersetzungen

habitat

ενδιαίτημα

abitat

φυσικό περιβάλλον

οικότοπος

موئل

Frequenz

C2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ˈhæbɪtæt/
Etymologie (Englisch)

From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“I live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.

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